<?php

/*
 * This file is part of SwiftMailer. (c) 2004-2009 Chris Corbyn For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

/**
 * Interface for all Encoder schemes.
 * 
 * @package Swift
 * @subpackage Encoder
 * @author Chris Corbyn
 */
interface Swift_Encoder extends Swift_Mime_CharsetObserver {
	/**
	 * Encode a given string to produce an encoded string.
	 * 
	 * @param string $string        	
	 * @param int $firstLineOffset
	 *        	if first line needs to be shorter
	 * @param int $maxLineLength
	 *        	- 0 indicates the default length for this encoding
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function encodeString($string, $firstLineOffset = 0, $maxLineLength = 0);
}
